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RE: Want McIntosh, can't afford it - what do?

I've been doing a lot of reading on these 2 models - there seems to be a lingering debate about whether the 6900 and 6500 sound basically identical? Have you ever heard both? Of course the greedy part of me wants the autoformers, but if no one can tell the difference in a blind A/B then I'll keep my $.

Also, I was going throuhg some of your older posts and you mentioned that a Quad 909/99 pairing was almost, if not as good as, the MA6500 with a similar sound signature. Now that some years have passed, do you still feel the same way? The Quads are dirt cheap these days.

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